Charles Pillsbury's Reading List
Ok guys, here goes. I'm going to go back a month or two and list out the books I've been reading of late, the ones I'm working on now, and the next couple on the reading list. I'll get up short reviews of them sometime... at least snippets of info on them. You'll notice the diversity of styles here from horror to Oprah books, some were recommended to me, some looked good at the library, and the Oprah books are part of a deal I made with my wife to get her to read some of MY favorite books. There are also several books I'm reading parts of for research for stories I'm working on writing, I probably won't list them unless they strike me as particularly fascinating.
Currently Reading:
- My Name Escapes Me - Alec Guinness
- What's so Amazing about Grace - Philip Yancey
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- The Elements of Style - Strunk & White
- The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
- The One Year Bible
- The Millionare Mind - Thomas Stanley
Recently Read:
- White Oleander - Janet Fitch (03/04/03)
- Requiem Shark - Nicholas Griffin (03/01/03)
- The Plot Thickens - Lukeman (02/16/03)
- The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien (02/19/03)
- Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice (02/12/03)
- Hart's Hope - Orson Scott Card
- The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
- The Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
- On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft - Steven King --> Highly Recommended
- Where's Joe Merchant - Jimmy Buffet
- Shadow Puppets - Orson Scott Card
- Making Life Work - Bill Hybels
- If you want to walk on water you have to get out of the boat - John Ortberg
- House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
- The Way to Write for Children - Joan Aiken
- House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
- Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy - Orson Scott Card
There are a few more that I've read since the holidays (some of those were during and just before the holidays) but I'm having a horrible time remembering what all they were. I'll update this as I remember and as I finish more books.To Read:
This is a much longer list now, with additions based on other books I've recently read, and a book called The New Lifetime Reading Plan, many of these are re-reads but it's been long enough to add to the to read list
- Character & Viewpoint - Orson Scott Card
- Dune Series - Frank Herbert
- Ender Series - Orson Scott Card
- The Nudist on the Late Shift - Po Bronson
- Noah's Flood - William Ryan & Walter Pitman
- Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Winston Churchill
- Too Busy Not to Pray - Bill Hybels
- Liavek Series - ???
- Thieves World Series - Various
- Wild Seed - Octavia Butler
- How to Write a Damn good Novel - James Frey
- Words Fail Me - Patricia O'Conner
- The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The River Warren - Kent Meyers
- Everything that Rises must Converge
- The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anon.
- The Analects - Confuscious
- Medea, Hipploytus, Electra - Euripides
- The Art of War - Sun-Tzu
- The Clouds, The Birds, Lysistrata - Aristophanes
- Ethics, Polotics, Poetics - Aristotle
- Apology, Crito, Protagoras, Republic - Plato
- The Mahabharata - Vyasa
- Of the Nature of Things - Lucretius
- The Aenid - Virgil
- Meditations - MArcus Aurelius
- The Confessions - St Augustine
- The Cloud Messenger - Kalidasa
- The Tale of Genji - Lady Murasaki
- The Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Kuan-chung
- The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
- The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Thousand and one Nights - Anon.
- Don Quixote - Cervantes
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo Galilei
- Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
- Discourse on Method - Rene Descartes
- Paradise Lost, Lycidas - John Milton
- Thoughts (Pensees) - Blaise Pascal
- The School for Wives, The Misanthrope - Molier
- Second Treatise of Government - John Locke
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Matsuo Basho
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Candide - Voltaire
- An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
- Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
- Basic Documents in American History - Jefferson et al, edited by Richard Morris
- The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Madison, Jay
- Faust - Johann Goethe
- The Prelude - William Wordsworth
- The ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan - Samuel Talor Coleridge
- Pride and Pregudice, Emma - Jane Austin
- The Red and the Black - Stendhal
- Pere Goriot, Cousin Bette - Honore De Balzac
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
- On Liberty, The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill
- The Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
- Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
- Vanity Fair - William Thackery
- David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Walden, Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
- Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
- Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
- Bartleby the Scrivner, Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol
- Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
- Pragmatism - William James
- The Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nriedrich Nietzsche
- Civilization and it's Discontents - Sigmund Freud
- Uncle Vanya - Anton Checkhov
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- The Castle - Franz Kafka
- Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
- The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Pale Fire, Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The English Teacher - RK Narayan
- Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
- The First Circle - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Acheve
- Robots and Empire - Isaac Asimov
- The Millionare Next Door - Thomas Stanley
- The Pirate Hunter - Richard Zacks
- The Guardship, The Blackbirder, The Pirate Round - James L Nelson
- A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Terminal - Robin Cook
- White Plague - Frank Herbert
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- in Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- Shadows of the Rock - Willa Cather
- The Meaning of Relativity - Albert Einstein
- The invisible man - Ralph Ellison
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- I Claudius - Robert Graves
- The world according to Garp - Joh Irving
- From here to Eternity - James Jones
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- The Terrible Truth about Liberals - Neil Boortz
- The Spy who came in from the cold - John LeCarre
- The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
- Death of a Salesman, The Crucible - Arhtur Miller
- Song of Soloman, Jazz - Toni Morrison
- Giants in the Earth - Ole Edvart Rolvaag
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Rabbit, Run - John Updike
- Burr - Gore Vidal
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
- The Glass Menagerie, Streetcar named Desire - Tennessee Williams
- The Stand, Carrie - Steven King
- The CodeBreakers - David Kahn
- Thomas Covenant Series
- White Gold Weilder
- Neuromancer, All Tomorrows Parties - William Gibson
- Early DragonLance series - Weiss and Kickman
- Sole Survivor - Dean Koontz
Favorites
these are books I've read in the past and loved, many of which I'll read again, some of which make it onto my reading list above
- Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card
- Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
- God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune - Frank Herbert
- Seventh Son, et al (Alvin Maker series) - Orson Scott Card
- White Plague - Frank Herbert
- Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Making Life Work - Bill Hybels
- Mere Christianity - CS Lewis